In the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster, the trait of black body is due to a gene on chromosome 2 and black body b is recessive to wild type body b + . The trait of purple eyes is controlled by a gene that is also on chromosome 2 and purple eyes p is recessive to wild type eyes p + . A true-breeding wild type strain is crossed with a true breeding strain that has black bodies and purple eyes. The F1 generation is then testcrossed to the black body, purple eye strain and 500 progeny are produced as follows: 224 wild type for both body and eye 236 black body and purple eye 18 wild type body and purple eye 22 black body and wild type eye. What is the recombination frequency

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Inheritance and Mendelian Genetics

Inheritance means the passing of traits to offspring from parents. These traits could be passed either through asexual reproduction or sexual reproduction. The offspring receives the genetic material from the parents. Mendelian inheritance is a certain biological inheritance that follows the rules and principles laid down by Gregor Mendel in 1865. The initial hypothesis was considered wrong, but other inheritance theories modified the concept of inheritance and thus genetics.